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W.A. Swanberg


Born
in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
November 23, 1907

Died
September 17, 1992

Genre
Nonfiction, Biography


A graduate of the University of Minnesota, William Andrew Swanberg worked as a journalist for newspapers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and as an editor for Dell Publishing. After serving in the Office of War Information during World War II, Swanberg worked as a freelance writer and an author of a number of scholarly biographies.

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“This was the sort of challenge that delighted Hearst, who, according to one who knew him well, regarded journalism as 'an enchanted playground in which giants and dragons were to be slain simply for the fun of the thing.”
― W.A. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst
tags: william-randolph-hearst
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